'Black Mirror' Reveals Star-Studded Season 7 Cast
Harriet Walter in "Killing Eve", Emma Corrin in The Crown" and Harriet Walter in "Killing Eve"
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Netflix has revealed a star-studded cast for its seventh installment of the anthology series Black Mirror, which will premiere on Netflix in 2025. Created by Charlie Brooker, the series features dark, frequently dystopian stories that explore the unanticipated (usually negative) of modern technology on human society. Satirical and disturbing, its episodes have explored everything from social media and the concept of a digital afterlife to dating apps, streaming services, and smart homes. Each episode is a standalone story, and the series can be watched in almost any order. (Though there are hints that some of the tales may exist within a larger shared universe.) The series originated on Channel 4, which canceled it after a couple of seasons, only to have Netflix pick it up and turn it into a cultural sensation that it now commands the best the U.K. has to offer in terms of cast.
The nineteen (19!) cast members confirmed to appear in Season 7 features many Anglophile favorites, including Peter Capaldi (Criminal Record), Emma Corrin (The Crown), Milanka Brooks (Four Weddings and a Funeral), Siena Kelly (Domino Day), Patsy Ferran (Firebrand), Lewis Gribben (Masters of the Air), Osy Ikhile (Citadel), Rosy McEwen (Harvest), Chris O'Dowd (Moone Boy), and Harriet Walter (Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light).
The Season 7 cast also features notable American names such as Awkwafina (Jackpot!), Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers), Rashida Jones (Sunny), Billy Magnussen (Road House), Cristin Milioti (The Penguin), Issa Rae (Insecure), Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish), and Jimmi Simpson (Westworld).
“You can expect a mix of genres and styles,” Brooker told the audience at Netflix's recent Geeked Week live event. “We've got six episodes this time, and two of them are basically feature-length. Some of them are deeply unpleasant, some are quite funny, and some are emotional.”
“It’s back to basics in many ways" Brooker told Netflix's Tudum. "They’re all sci-fi stories, but there’s definitely some horrifying things that occur, but maybe not in an overt horror-movie way. There’s definitely some disturbing content in it."
The new six-episode set is slated to arrive at a to-be-determined date in 2025, and most of its stories are being kept firmly under wraps. We do know that one of the episodes will be a sequel to the fan-favorite Season 4 installment "U.S.S. Callister," and the inclusion of the bulk of that episode's main cast — minus Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog), who played the disgruntled (and now dead) tech employee Robert Daly — would certainly seem to confirm the idea of a direct follow-up.
Brooker created the series and will once again serve as executive producer alongside Jessica Rhoades and Annabel Jones.
Black Mirror Seasons 1-6 are currently streaming on Netflix, along with the interactive, choose-your-own-adventure special called Bandersnatch.
